Chief Justice of India, Bhushan Gawai which is not true about him ?
- (1)He was born on 24th November 1960.
- (2)He practiced in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law.
- (3)He was appointed as Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor for Nagpur Bench in January 2005.
- (4)He was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India in May 2019.
Correct — option (3) is the statement that is NOT true. Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai — the 52nd Chief Justice of India, sworn in on 14 May 2025 — was appointed Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor for the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on 17 January 2000, not January 2005. His biography correctly places him in Nagpur Bench roles from 1992 (as Assistant Government Pleader and Additional Public Prosecutor), then as full Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor from January 2000, before he was elevated as an Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court in November 2003 and confirmed as a permanent Judge in November 2005. The '2005' offered in this option collides with the year he actually became a permanent High Court Judge, which is exactly the kind of adjacent-date substitution this question is built to catch.
- (1)He was born on 24th November 1960. — This is accurate. Justice Gavai was born on 24 November 1960 in Amravati, Maharashtra, and this date is consistently recorded across his official biography.
- (2)He practiced in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law. — This is accurate. Justice Gavai's own recorded career history describes him as having practiced in Constitutional and Administrative Law, alongside his later work across civil, criminal, commercial, arbitration, electricity and environmental matters as a High Court and Supreme Court judge.
- (4)He was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India in May 2019. — This is accurate. Justice Gavai was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 24 May 2019, several years before he went on to become Chief Justice of India in May 2025.
Justice B. R. Gavai's career milestones — birth, entry to the Bar, appointments as Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor, elevation as Additional and then permanent High Court Judge, elevation to the Supreme Court, and eventually becoming Chief Justice of India — form a specific chronological sequence, and this question tests whether a candidate can spot the one date in that sequence that has been altered.
MPSC current-affairs questions on the sitting Chief Justice of India are near-certain to appear in the paper closest to a change of CJI, and they typically test the precise sequence of career dates rather than just the headline fact of who the CJI is. The safest preparation is a short dated timeline of the incumbent CJI's career, built from the Supreme Court's own biography.
- Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai was born on 24 November 1960 in Amravati, Maharashtra.
- He was appointed Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor for the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on 17 January 2000.
- He was elevated as an Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court in November 2003, and became a permanent Judge in November 2005.
- He was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 24 May 2019, and became the 52nd Chief Justice of India on 14 May 2025 — the first CJI from the Buddhist community.
- 24 Nov 1960 — born, Amravati, Maharashtra
- 17 Jan 2000 — Government Pleader & Public Prosecutor, Nagpur Bench (NOT 2005, as option C claims)
- Nov 2005 — confirmed permanent Judge, Bombay High Court
- 24 May 2019 — elevated to the Supreme Court of India
Option C borrows 2005 from a different, later milestone — the real appointment year is 2000.
- Substituting one correct date in a judge's career for another correct-sounding but wrong year drawn from a different milestone in the same biography
- Assuming that because most statements about a well-known figure sound plausible, all of them must be true
MPSC's 'which is NOT true' questions about the sitting Chief Justice of India typically alter exactly one date or fact in an otherwise accurate biography, often by borrowing a year from a different, nearby milestone in the same person's career. A dated timeline, checked against the Supreme Court's own official biography, is the reliable defence.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Justice B. R. Gavai was appointed Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor for the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court in which year?
- (a)1992
- (b)2000
- (c)2003
- (d)2005
Answer(b) 2000 — appointed on 17 January 2000, after earlier serving as Assistant Government Pleader and Additional Public Prosecutor from 1992.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Justice B. R. Gavai became a permanent Judge of the Bombay High Court in which year, after being elevated as an Additional Judge in 2003?
- (a)2000
- (b)2003
- (c)2005
- (d)2019
Answer(c) 2005 — confirmed as a permanent Judge in November 2005, well before his 2019 elevation to the Supreme Court.